The soundcard is an Aztec AZT2320, PnP but ISA connector. It was working before under W98. I installed Blag10000 (default desktop option)- the card appeared to be detected and configured, there were no error messages, but there's no sound.

The speaker symbol bottom right on the toolbar has a line through it. If I right click and open volume control I get a message that it's not working. The detail says invalid mixer device, /dev/mixer can't be opened. /dev/mixer exisits as a zero size file, I've tried changing permissions and also running as root, but no difference.

Similarly, if I try to use XMMS, I get a message that audio couldn't be opened. Somewhere in fiddling about, I've had a message that /dev/audio can't be opened - like /dev/mixer, it exists as a zero size file.

Any suggestions please? Go easy on me, I'm newish to Linux (very new to Blag) and I'm very much a user rather than a programmer.

This detects 'AZT2320 PnP Sound Device:Audio'
It offers some address and IRQ settings to match DIP switches on the card - there aren't any switches.... I accepted the offered settings (0x530/IRQ5/DMA1-1/DMA2-0) and it then went to play a test sound, returning the message 'error opening /dev/audio'.

I tried the other address setting, but everything hangs when it goes to the test sound. I got the IRQ as 5 from the screen during boot.

Its the next generation of Linux sound drivers and are the default in kernel 2.6 (e.g blag20k & fedora core 2).----alsaconf appears not to be installed. I couldn't find an option to install the alsa suite under the 'system settings/install apps' menu. I started to read the alsa project pages but quickly got out of my depth.

Note, alsa sets its channels to mute by default. You can change levels with (also in the menu):

Code:

gnome-alsamixer

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I tried to install the gnome-alsamixer using the 'install apps' menu, but it just comes up with 'there was an error' popup, whether I do is as a user or root.

A Gnome pop-up comes up saying mixer-applett2 crashed with a segmentation error.

Later, in text mode, there's a modprobe error - sound service-0-0 not found, followed a line starting aumix: with an error (sorry. missed what it was in detail, and I don't have time to re-run before going out).

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